John A. Squires has a broad and globally recognized FinTech and Blockchain legal practice, pioneering the intersection between intellectual property and regulatory and sandbox engagement intellectual property practice. He presently is Chair of the emerging company and IP practice at the law firm of Dilworth Paxson. Prior to private practice, he was one of the leading Wall Street technology lawyers, heading Goldman’s Sachs’ Intellectual property group and chairing the Securities Industry and Financial Markets technology groups, where he testified before the Senate Judiciary and Banking Committees and the Federal Trade Commission on patent reform. Mr. Squires has also co-founded several start-ups dealing with risk and compliance issues, including Regulatory DataCorp, RANE (the Risk Assistance Network and Exchange) and FinClusive, a financial inclusion, blockchain driven banking gateway that view financial access as a basic civil and human right.